[who_would_fardels_bear]

IA sounds euphemistic like "Information Retrieval" from the movie Brazil. It smells of terms like 'synergy' to me, but then maybe I'm just turning into an old greybeard.

[sickoflibs]

The past few years certain Asian countries have been launching Cyber attacks on first our US government agencies, and more recently US corporations. This is real war real time.

Much of it is spying. Sneaking info past the firewalls.

So there is big $$$ in being those with technical skills to protect these computer networks.

I personally have my challenge keeping my own owned PC running correctly, so that is not my field.

My main point is there are hot and growing fields and I see so many young adults (social libs) wasting big $$$ of dead end educations.